Monthly Archives: March 2019

CDFA Secretary Karen Ross today at agency headquarters with the Allen Hancock College Young Farmers and Ranchers Club, from Santa Barbara County. The group is in town for Ag Day festivities tomorrow at the State Capitol and has scheduled a series of meetings with state leaders. Secretary Ross: “It was great to meet so many enthusiastic young people and hear …

Please join us on the west side of the State Capitol tomorrow for Ag Day 2019, rain or shine! The grounds are open to the public from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm. Here’s a look back at Ag Day last year!

The California Department of Food and Agriculture is celebrating its 100th anniversary as a state agency in 2019. Throughout the year this blog will feature a number of items to commemorate this milestone. Today we continue with the Centennial Reflections video series, featuring CDFA employees remembering their histories, and the agency’s.

By Padma Nagappan The majority of California’s sunflower crop is grown in the Sacramento Valley, mostly for seed production. The state accounts for 95 percent of the U.S supply and 25 percent of the world’s supply of sunflower seeds. Planted acreage tends to vary greatly year-to-year, because most of it is used as planting seed for farmers that grow it …

Make plans to join us next Wednesday, March 20 at the State Capitol for Ag Day 2019! Our theme this year is 100 years of agriculture leadership – a centennial celebration! The grounds will be open to the public from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm.

Op-ed by CDFA Secretary Karen Ross A farm is a great teacher.   Like so many rural kids, my education was augmented and illustrated on my family’s farm in western Nebraska. Bottle-feeding calves to ensure proper nutrition, timing wheat-planting around rainfall, rotating fields for soil health, and knowing all too well that we were at the mercy of weather and …

By Teresa O’Connor As you drive north on the U.S. Highway 101 Freeway from downtown Los Angeles, you probably don’t realize those picturesque open spaces about an hour away are some of the most productive farmland in the nation. In fact, Ventura County is the nation’s eleventh largest county in crop value, despite its close location to the country’s second …

The California Department of Food and Agriculture is celebrating its 100th anniversary as a state agency in 2019. Throughout the year this blog will feature a number of items to commemorate this milestone. Today we continue with Centennial Reflections video series, featuring CDFA employees remembering their histories, and the agency’s.